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“We have a bunch of them,” Grimes said. “It’s not the biggest, but it’s one of the bigger ones.”

Asked how the club’s members react to a monstrous passerby, he said the course suspends play and “tries to get everyone out of the way.”

That’s exactly what to do when you see a Lowcountry alligator, according to S.C. Department of Natural Resources spokesperson David Lucas.

Lucas said SCDNR’s major piece of advice to everyone is to not feed the alligators.

“Feeding alligators can quickly make them dangerous to people,” Lucas said in August. He said once people do this, the alligators will start associating people with food and be more likely to approach them.

Katherine Kokal moved to South Carolina in 2018 after graduating from the University of Missouri and loves everything about the Lowcountry that isn’t a Palmetto Bug. She has won South Carolina Press Association awards for in-depth and government beat reporting. On the weekends, you can find Kati doing yoga and hiking Pinckney Island.